c. Ryabtsevo
c. Zhipino
c. Rizhskoye
Send copies to Sereda and Krestinsky with an addendum
that I have given letters concerning them.
I request that an inspection be appointed for Mr.
1 The document bears secretary's marks indicating execution: "Sent to
Sereda, passed to Krestinsky" and "to archives."
p. S.
P. Sereda—member of the RSDLP since 1903. After the October Socialist
Revolution—People's Commissar of Agriculture.
N. N. Krestinsky—member of the Central Committee of the RCP(b).
8510

MEMORANDUM TO V. I. NEVSKY
[JANUARY 31, 1919]
To Nevsky: I am against it. Your conclusion?1
1 Written on a memorandum from a member of the Revolutionary Military Council
of the Kursk direction troop group
I. G. Perchikhin
To the Chairman of the Council of Defense
V. I. Lenin
with a request to place one four-axle salon-car at the disposal
of the troop group of I. S. Kozhevnikov.
On the document V. I. Nevsky wrote: "Refuse. Not permitted by regulations."
Having received the reply, V. I. Lenin made a note: "To archives."
8087

MEMORANDUM OF M. M. KOSTELOVSKAYA
[FEBRUARY 4, 1919]
Pass this telegram to the Central Committee.
It demonstrates the  a c u t e n e s s  o f  t h e  s t r u g g l e  between the
Military-Food Bureau and the Food Commissariat.
A lamentable sharpening*.
1 This concerns a telegram from the People's Commissariat of Food to the
Military-Food Bureau of January 13, 1919, in which the People's Commissariat
of Food proposed that the Military-Food Bureau cease the formation of new
food requisition detachments. As evidenced by the documents, the telegram
was submitted to V. I. Lenin at a session of the Council of People's Commissars
on February 4, 1919.